Terms and conditions of use
Occasional table, for Maie Casey
(c. 1932)
Medium
Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon)
Measurements
60.3 × 82.1 cm diameter
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation, 2017
Gallery location
Gallery 8
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
Fred Ward was one of Australia’s most influential mid twentieth century designers, and one of the first exponents of modernist design in Melbourne. Ward attended the school of drawing at the National Gallery School from 1918 to 1925. During the 1920s Ward worked as a freelance illustrator and cartoonist for the Bulletin and Table Talk. Ward first began making and designing furniture for his home in Eaglemont in 1930. An important patron of modern art in Melbourne during the 1930s and 1940s, Maie Casey first commissioned furniture from Ward in 1931. This table and armchair were designed for Maie and her husband Richard Casey’s East Melbourne home, ‘Little Parndon’.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Accession Number
2017.195
Department
Australian Decorative Arts